Ghana’s revised curriculum for kindergarten through Primary Six remains under review by the Ghana Education Service (GES) and has not yet received formal government approval, Education Minister Haruna Iddrisu said at a ceremony marking Great Apam Senior High School’s 73rd anniversary in the Central Region.
The National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NaCCA) presented the revised curriculum to the Ministry last month, following a review that ran from March to July 2026 and involved 160 writers and reviewers across 12 subject areas, according to NaCCA Director-General Prof. Samuel Ofori Bekoe. The document retains roughly 80 percent of existing content while introducing civic education, artificial intelligence literacy, computational thinking, coding, digital citizenship and optional Arabic and Chinese language study. Iddrisu said the curriculum must clear GES review before going to Cabinet, and only then would it be formally adopted by the Ministry and rolled out through the GES and the Technical and Vocational Education and Training sector.
He described the reform as an effort to move basic education beyond classroom instruction alone. “We are repositioning the curriculum for learners from KG to Primary Six, with emphasis on moral values. Classroom learning alone is not enough. Problem-solving, critical thinking, analytical skills and character building will be central to the curriculum,” he said, tying the changes to President John Dramani Mahama’s Reset Agenda. Alongside AI, robotics and STEM subjects, the revised curriculum would keep a Ghanaian language as the medium of instruction from kindergarten through Basic Three, with English introduced formally as the primary teaching medium from Basic Four.
Iddrisu also announced plans to upgrade Great Apam Senior High School from Category B to Category A status as part of a broader push to expand access to quality secondary education. He said the school would receive infrastructure expansion and renovation under the Transformative Secondary Education for Access, Results and Relevance for Jobs (STARR-J) project, along with completion of stalled GETFund projects and the provision of a school bus.
The Minister said the interventions form part of a wider government strategy to upgrade infrastructure across selected senior high schools nationwide.
